The Works of Shirley Jackson

Locus Index to Science Fiction (novels)lists
all books by or about Jackson. This is an extremely helpful site if you are trying to put
together a bibliography of her work or looking for dates certain works were
published.

CyberSpace Spinner
provides a brief bibliography of Jackson's work. It highlights her novels as well as
her collected works and lists three magazines (The New Yorker, Playboy, and Fantasy
and Science Fiction) that published her short fiction and the dates in which those
stories appeared; however, be careful: these lists are incomplete.

About
Shirley Jacksonis an informative site that has a reprinted essay
containing biographical information as well as a brief bibliography; it
highlights her primary works and some criticism. The site also has a
links to a literature forum and helpful websites for finding rare
books.

The Shirley Jackson Pageis
a bibliographical site that lists her major works as well as critical works about her
fiction. Dr. Roger Blackwell Bailey, a professor at San Antonio College has created
this site as part of his American Women Writers page on the school's LitWeb Index.

Post-war Literature Links:

Twentieth
Century authors--This site will help anyone researching 20th-centurey
authors. It provides several research tools on the internet for whatever genre you
may be studying. A few of the subcategories on this site deal specifically with
Postwar Literature.

Literature and Culture of the
1950s--You will find an extensive list of resources on this page about the
writers of the 1950s and their work. There are some great Postwar links as well as
links for many other genres. A useful site for anyone researching American
literature and culture.

American Cultural History: the
20th century--a decade by decade look at the U.S. that provides useful
postwar information. The information provided for the 1940s will eventually link you
with a brief mention of Jackson's story "The Lottery" and how it demonstrated
that everyday people are capable of allowing something like the Holocaust to occur.

Gothic Literature Links:

The
Literary Gothic is a Web site for all things concerned with literary
Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic fiction (1764-1820),
and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature prior to the mid-twentieth
century. You can find available etexts and some really useful links.

The
Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature in
England from 1764 to 1834. It provides students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to
web resources an introduction to the Gothic novel, collected summaries, papers, critical
and bibliographical information and related sites are assembled together to expedite
research.It is a good starting point for Gothic
origins.

Online articles about Jackson (mainly book
reviews):

Shirley Jackson: House and
Guardiansby Kyla Ward contains some really useful biographical information
and has a good list of her works throughout the article. Ward uses great quotes from
some of Jackson's non-fiction which are really revealing of her life.

Just an
Ordinary Day (book review) I've created a link to a review of Just
an Ordinary Day--a collection of stories released in 1997. If this is an
approach to Jackson's work you wish to use, I would recommend starting from the DarkEcho Home Page. It
provides information about the genre of Horror fiction and criticism on work within this
genre.

Monstrous Acts and Little Murdersis an
article by Jonathon Lethem discussing Just an Ordinary Day. Although this
article is mainly a review of her collected stories, there is interesting information
about the life Jackson and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, made for themselves in
Bennington, VT.

Reminiscences
of Shirley Jacksonis a brief essay by Carol Porter that describes the
publication of Just an Ordinary Day. She also has a list of Jackson's works that
link to amazon.com if you want to order any or all of
her works.

Other links:

Brighton
High School Alumni Web Sitehas a page dedicated to
Shirley Jackson, who graduated from this Rochester high school in 1934. Their site
has brief biographical information plus a few links of their own. It's a great
place if you're looking for brief information.

Term Paper: Shirley Jackson.
This site contains a student's term paper on Jackson. There is a great starting
bibliography for for any type of Jackson research.